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University Press, 1994); Lisa E. Davenport, Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the
Cold War Era (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009); and Penny von Eschen,
Satchmo Blows up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2004).
The citation for the 1965 report is this: “Rukovoditel’ temi: incognito ispolniteli:
khoteli byi ostat’sya neizvestnyimi, khotya byi dlya knachal’stva,” Otchyot laboratorii
chitayushchikh avtomatov za 1964–1965 g.g. (Kiev: Akademiya Nayk ukrainskoi ssr
institute kibernetiki AN USSR, Laboratoriya chitayushchikh avtomatov, 1965).
Quote taken from unmarked document in personal archives of Vera Viktorevna
Glushkova, Kiev, Ukraine.
Several scholarly works have drawn critical attention to the gendered perfor-
mance in technical expertise, cyborg imagery, and counterculture, although none to
my knowledge have done so in the Soviet context. For more, see Janet Abbate,
Recording Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing (Cambridge: MIT
Press, 2012); Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and
Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs and Women:
The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 149–181; Nathan Engs-
menger, The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of
Technical Expertise (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010); Turner, From Counterculture to
Cyberculture, 76–77, 300–305.
In an unsent October 1961 letter, Nemchinov proposes an “institute of eco-
nomic cybernetics.” H. S. Khrushchyev, Doklad na XXII s’esde KPSS 18 Okctober
1961, RAN archives, CEMI, 1959, 1, 7, 124, 2.
Letter from Vasily Nemchinov to the Ministry of Finance: “V ministerstvo
finansov SSSR” [“To the Ministry of Finance, USSR”], RAN archives, CEMI, 1959, 1,
7, 125, 11.
Ibid.
Kassel, Soviet Cybernetics Research, 94–96.
Nemchinov letter, “V ministerstvo finansov SSSR.”
Ibid.
Yuri Gavrilets, interviewed by author, CEMI, Moscow, August 20, 2008.
Nemchinov letter, “V ministerstvo finansov SSSR.”
Nikita S. Khrushchev, “Doklad na XXII S”esde KPSS” [“Concluding Speech”],
Twenty-second Congress, October 18, 1961, accessed March 19, 2010, http://www.
archive.org/details/DocumentsOfThe22ndCongressOfTheCpsuVolI.